Suspected retinopathies in Norwegian optometric practice with emphasis on patients with diabetes: a cross-sectional study

Table 1 Clinical findings in 3,576 fundus examined encounters and management* by tentative diagnosis and history.

Optometrists' tentative diagnosis and patients' history	n	Referral/report/patient urged to contact doctor	No/routine optometric follow up
Diabetic retinopathy	23	12	11
No history of retinopathy	14	8	6
History of retinopathy	9	4	5
Hypertensive/vascular retinopathy	27	16	11
No history of retinopathy	26	15	11
History of retinopathy	1	1
Macular disease ^†	56	26	30
No history of retinopathy	31	18	13
History of retinopathy	25	8	17
All retinopathies	106	54	52
No retinopathy	3,470	385	3,085

* Fisher's Exact Test p < 0.001 between patients with findings of retinopathy and patients with no findings of retinopathy
^† Fisher's Exact Test p = 0.003 between patients with retinopathy findings and known history of retinopathy and patients with retinopathy findings and no history of retinopathy.

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